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Miss Neal's Notes & Experiences [on Morris Dancing]
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Miss Neal's Notes & Experiences [on Morris Dancing]
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Letter from Maud Karpeles to Tony Wales
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Letter from [Maud Karpeles] to Tony Wales (1 Nov 1974) re Wales' retirement from EFDSS, his continued editorship of 'English Dance and Song' and the submission by Karpeles of a letter to the editor to be published in 'English Dance and Song'. Includes...
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Letter from William Kimber to Maud Karpeles 30-10-33
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Letter from William Kimber to Maud Karpeles (30 Oct 1933) re lack of contact from EFDS [EFDSS] following his visit to London on 6 Dec 1932 and concerns for the end of his Morris dancing career.
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Cessation of dancing and revival
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William Kimber
William Kimber at home, Merryville, St Ann’s Road, Headington, 16 June 1959, with Theo Chaundy, Christopher Chaundy
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Expression in Dance by Mark E Perugini
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'Expression in Dance' by Mark E Perugini. From 'The Dancing Times', February 1920.
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First meeting and Sharp and Neal
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Christopher Chaundy, William Kimber, Theo Chaundy
Recorded at Theo Chaundy's house, 62 Iffley Road, Oxford, 1956Present: William Kimber, Mabel Stace, Charlie Jones, Jim Phillips, Theo Chaundy, Hilda Chaundy (wife of TC), Christopher Chaundy, Jennifer...
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Letter from Maud Karpeles to Rolf Gardiner
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Letter from [Maud Karpeles] to Henry Rolf Gardiner (12 Dec 1962) re disagreements with Gardiner's address to the Cambridge Morris Men relating to Cecil Sharp's opinion of women and Morris dancing, declining standard of songs and dances with reference...
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Collections
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Back to the Quarry brings together several important collections, in some cases making them available for the first time. As you browse through the collections you have the opportunity to comment on them and to add your own memories or thoughts.
We're...
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'Back to the Quarry'
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This website was created as part of the 'Back to the Quarry' project (BTTQ), by Folk Arts Oxford, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
The aim of BTTQ was to explore the musical history of William Kimber and his family, and share the story with the...
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Newspaper Cutting 1899, Morris Dancers
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Newspaper cutting, [1899]. "Morris Dancing at the Oxford Corn Exchange : an interesting and novel exhibition."
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BTTQ Education workshops
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As part of the 'Back to the Quarry' project, we carried out some workshops at two primary schools in the Headington area: Wood Farm Primary School (situated a couple of minutes walk from the house which Kimber was born in) and Windmill Primary School...
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The Chaundy Collection
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In 1956 Theo Chaundy (a mathematics don at Christ Church and a morris dancer with the Oxford University Morris Men) bought a tape recorder and invited William Kimber to his home to talk about morris dancing, along with his fellow dancers Jim Phillips...
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The Loveless recordings
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The Reverend Kenneth Loveless (1911-1995), Area Dean of Hackney, morris dancer and musician, got to know William Kimber and became his pupil on the concertina. When Kimber died, he left Loveless the concertina which had been bought for him by public...
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Joining the EFDSS
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Loveless discusses why he joined the EFDSS, and the experiences that lead to his involvement in traditional music as well as the history of the EFDSS
